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The problem of classifying topologically distinct general relativistic metrics is discussed. For a wide class of parallelizable space-time manifolds it is shown that a certain integer-valued topological invariant n always exists, and that quantization when n is odd will lead to spinor wave functionals.
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Shastri, A.R., Williams, J.G. & Zvengrowski, P. Kinks in general relativity. Int J Theor Phys 19, 1–23 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00670210
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